Editing
I'm participating in the RWA challenge "THE END," and I've found myself doing something I never do while I'm working on my WIP : editing as I go.
When I write I almost always work from an outline, stick to it and then when the work is completed, start to edit. This time, though, for whatever reason, I am editing as I go...and I find I am liking it!
Even though my outlines are detailed, long winded, and very explanatory, every now and then a new little niggle of a thought or plot line change will worm its way into my mind. Most of the time I write the thought down and come back to it at the end.
Not this time.
For instance, the other day I was driving to work and saw a sign that said "Put God back in the -ass." Now I know that it should have read "class," but some wiseacre changed it. I found this funny - sacrilegious, but none the less funny in a skewered way. Part of my current WIP involves a girl who mis-speaks many times when she is nervous. So this got me to thinking about making her nervous tourettes-like symptoms more pronounced.
Back to my outline I went and wrote some funny miss-speaks into it to use during the telling of the story.
Editing as I go is new territory for me writing-wise, so we will have to see how it goes. If it takes too much time away from actually getting the words on the page in a timely fashion I will rethink the process.
But if it actually makes the story better the first time around, I just may have a whole new way to create.
Something to think about....
When I write I almost always work from an outline, stick to it and then when the work is completed, start to edit. This time, though, for whatever reason, I am editing as I go...and I find I am liking it!
Even though my outlines are detailed, long winded, and very explanatory, every now and then a new little niggle of a thought or plot line change will worm its way into my mind. Most of the time I write the thought down and come back to it at the end.
Not this time.
For instance, the other day I was driving to work and saw a sign that said "Put God back in the -ass." Now I know that it should have read "class," but some wiseacre changed it. I found this funny - sacrilegious, but none the less funny in a skewered way. Part of my current WIP involves a girl who mis-speaks many times when she is nervous. So this got me to thinking about making her nervous tourettes-like symptoms more pronounced.
Back to my outline I went and wrote some funny miss-speaks into it to use during the telling of the story.
Editing as I go is new territory for me writing-wise, so we will have to see how it goes. If it takes too much time away from actually getting the words on the page in a timely fashion I will rethink the process.
But if it actually makes the story better the first time around, I just may have a whole new way to create.
Something to think about....
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